Nexuscrazy Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Hi fellow Pineapple users, I think the title says it al but I'll ask again: Can the Pineapple make you anonymous to your ip provider ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 No. Nothing can make you anonymous to your provider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexuscrazy Posted November 7, 2014 Author Share Posted November 7, 2014 No. Nothing can make you anonymous to your provider. Thanks, Can someone explain why sending all traffic and receiving all traffic through the pineapple cant mask you, I'm only asking as I'm interested what is it they can see and why can't we hide in the background not seen. I don't like the idea that someone can spy and keep tracks on me, I'm only asking because I'm curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xcellerator Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Describing the Pineapple as a man-in-the-middle is a perfect description. ALL the pineapple does when in client mode is "forward" everything from its wireless clients to your AP. It couldn't encrypt or mask anything because then your AP wouldn't understand it. (Ok, there is encryption involved, but its only the WEP/WPA that you have on your AP, thats only so that someone not authenticated to the network can't snoop on anything - in other words, everything is decrypted once it gets to the router.). As far as your router (and therefore your ISP) is concerned, the pineapple is just another wireless client connected to the network, just like your laptop or phone is. HOWEVER, obviously if you had several devices connected to the pineapple, the router wouldn't be able to distinguish between them (all the connections would appear to originate from the pineapple). Just like your ISP can't tell whether your phone or your laptop requested a certain web page (all the connections appear to originate from your router). Hope that clears it up for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 what if your using a vpn to hide your actions? isnt all vpn encrypted ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbi3 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Yes the traffic going through the VPN is encrypted but your IP address is not invisible or masked to your ISP they just know you are sending data to the VPN server. Now the data coming out of the other end of the VPN tunnel is not encrypted (unless its using SSL or something) so your ISP can't see what you are doing but the ISP that your VPN server is connected to and the administrators of the VPN server can see what you are doing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytedeez Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 You could also install OpenVPN on your pineapple, it would help but what Newbi3 said still applies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 You could also install OpenVPN on your pineapple, it would help but what Newbi3 said still applies. How is that going to help? Running a VPN from the pineapple, or from your computer makes no difference from the isp's point of view. All it's going to do is slow down your connection speed. The pineapple can run openvpn, but the encryption/decryption is going to slow it down. A lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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